Life is a game!

''Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.''

In future Japan, the government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Tatsuya Fujiwara: Shuya Nanahara - Boys #15

Aki Maeda: Noriko Nakagawa - Girls #15

Ah Battle Royale reminds me of my days at school....
Only joking, kind of! Royale tackles brain washing and youth in one foul swopp and i can see why it is compaered in certain ideas to Clockwork Orange. Even the music nods at Stanley Kubrick in places. Reminding me of Final Fantasy to music wise and that kid in the smart suit.

The killing is pretty good in this, meant to be disturbing but it caused me to laugh at times in it's approaches.

Could you kill your best friend? Does Battle Royale answer this. I know what i got. You can do anything with the right motivations.

Nice to see Chiaki Kuriyama from Kill Bill and after seeing this i can see why she got the part in that hack and slash.
Takeshi Kitano was deranged, loved his teaching.

The countdown aspect of the student dying, pure perfection. The ultimate game and something maybe we need in our education systems for all the chavs and townies and disrespecting youths in Society.

Battle Royale is a masterpiece that shows the limits and extremes of the human mind.

A masterpiece visually and musically.

''Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.''

''When we escape, it will be together.''

9/10

Comments

yaSsie

Posted : 1 week, 5 days ago at Dec 14 16:00

in the game of life
the strong survive
we're on a one-way street
we gotta make it out alive

Added by AgentLexi 1 year ago on 19 November 2008 08:19